Invitation to an event hosted by the Company of Stationers, which was to include a procession by barge to Westminster, followed by a dinner back at Stationers' Hall
Description:
Title from item., Letterpress text, with a woodcut illustration of the arms of the Company of Stationers printed above., "Dinner will be on table at four precisely.", Text at bottom: P.S. No person will be admitted in the procession, or on board the barge, without his livery gown; and none but the livery will be admitted into the Hall during any part of that day., Mounted to 27.1 x 20.8 cm., and Mounted before page 377 in volume 4 part 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (London, England)
Baker, B. (Benjamin), active 1766-1824, printmaker
Published / Created:
[18--?]
Call Number:
646 802 M243 v.4 pt.2
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Ticket to the Stationers Company; their coat of arms shown as armorial shield held by two trumpeting angels, and motto "verbum domini manet in eternum"."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title devised by cataloger., Date supplied by cataloger., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., Apparently used as a ticket for events; the impression at the British Museum (registration no.: C,2.611) has the contemporary annotation "Ticket to the Stationers Company, being their Arms.", Mounted to 27.1 x 20.8 cm; mounted above is a smaller (sheet 43 x 48 mm) hand-colored etching of the same arms., and Mounted before page 377 in volume 4 part 2 of an extra-illustrated copy of: Malcolm, J.P. Londinium redivivum, or, An antient history and modern description of London.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (London, England)
